We had one in Ohio when I was a kid (I think, someone tell me if I’m wrong, he could have just been visiting).

Really? Ours was full communion and was the standard hour long service (I swear, I have never been in church for a time longer or shorter than an hour unless I was at a non Episcopalian service). We had a decent number of people, but only half took communion, so that part was speedy.

There is a not small chance that my mother and I finally go to the American Girl store with Addy and one of the other dolls and have tea. Yes, I am pushing up on 30, but we’ve wanted to do that since the store opened. It’s not the same though, it was Pleasant Company back then and I totally notice a difference.

My Addy doll did make a dinosaur her pet once... that’s pretty bad ass. She also still has place of honor above all of my other dolls from childhood at my parents’ house. She’s basically Woody if my old toys are alive.

And they don’t take tall girls either, it’s like, a sweet spot on a the average range (I had a friend who’s about 5’8” get cut from every audition before they even saw her dance because she was too tall).

I also always imagine that someone from the 18th century would be disconcerted by how much light there always is now. More and brighter streetlights, buildings with lights always on, areas that are so bright at night that you don’t need any extra lighting to see clearly.

This! I am a white woman who was surrounded by a shit load of other white people in college. I highly doubt any of us would have been turned away in favor of a minority student, not to mention one with lower qualifications like people tend to complain about with affirmative action. Enrollment is growing at colleges…

You indeed can AND get to witness the Bros of Wrigley accidentally wandering into gay bars and being confused and freaked (as a former resident, it was always truly funny).

Right? It’s like, the same phrasing that a politician uses when they got caught boning the wrong person. I feel bad for the kid who will probably find this on the internet one day.

I’m from C-bus suburbs, and even things outside of Franklin County don’t suck. Delaware County has it’s highlights, Cincinnati isn’t the worst (even though I hate it), and there are definately enclaves of awesome throughout even the shitty parts of Ohio.

Oh my god yes- my conservative ish husband even complained about the right wing evangelists in his econ department. I see one of them on facebook (we have a mutual friend) and want to throw things at him constantly and am glad that neither my husband or I ever had him in class.

I think I got it from the Scholastic book catalogue too!

YES! It was called Running Out of Time, I loved that book as a kid. M. Night Shyamalan also got accused of plagiarism because The Village has almost the same plot.

That voice is what seals if for me. That and the vaguely stilted manner of speech. I don’t know why, but it’s a big ole yes please in my book.

From a dairy state here- we can take your cows but can’t grow a lot of the same produce or nuts because of the climate. It seems like a good compromise to me.

Plus some genetics and carrying the baby in a way that means she barely showed can’t hurt.

Thank you! I am friends with a family with two boys. One has his father’s lack of hair, the other has his mother’s complete total full head. Genetics are rarely so simple as to be maternal or paternal.

Exactly. George III was George II’s grandson, and that holds true for most other places, barring usurping uncles. That’s why Louis XV was the great grandson of Louis XIV (like, imagine something happening to Charles and William and George suddenly becoming next in line) and then Louis XVI was the grandson of Louis V.…

It makes me so happy how many people say that he’s perfectly lovely in person. I want celebrities to be nice, especially ones I find attractive.

She’s in the next Hunger Games in a hopefully beefed out version of the book character. I adore Gwendolyn Christie and am super attracted to her, so yes, let’s make her the next big thing. Maybe she has an action hero career in her path, I’d be totally down with that.